btw, does anyone know if you can a cable that plugs directly into the signalin brass housing and then has a RCA plug attached? would save messing with the soldering iron

Okay, I'm indicating with the wire cutters, which location do I want to cut? Right behind the camera, or just before the yellow and red connectuons?

Don't cut any wires off the camera especially close to the camera as there is a small power convertor inside the large moulded plastic half way along the cable. I did this with my first camera and wrecked it.

I'm not sure how much your new camera will strip down but I don't think that one will work. As part of the camera pack, you should have received a power cable and a yellow phono cable, these need to be attached to the original camera lead to act as a harness. It can all be plugged in as one then. If you let me know what the colour of the four original wires are then I can tell you what needs to be connected (if I can remember)

One more think, you will need to dig out all the old resin from the rear of your old camera casing and drill it large enough (12mm if I recall) for the plugs and large moulded section to pass through. These will also go through the spoiler fine if you remove the riveted holder then refit.

If this all goes successfully, then it is a good idea to seal the camera housing up properly with silicone as I ended up with a bit of water in mine after a few week which resulted in a blurry picture. Again make sure the camera works fine before doing this as it will be a pain to dig all the silicone back out if you don't like it.

Have a good search through the forum as there are a few posts on this and a good one in the wiki.

Angus thanks for the post. Before you made it, I did the job wrong and ruined my camera. I'm trying to wire it back to see if it will at least work. I'm going to post some photos to show you what I did.

Good luck with that, i did the same first time as i did not think the plugs would fit through the hole in the spoiler, tried to wire it back but gave up, they only cost around £8.00, so i would buy another..

I am still struggling with getting a connect via the yellow rca cable, i have cut it and it give a black and red wire, on my test bench both need to be connected to get an image on a tv, but the rangerover loom only has the coaxial type connection how do you connect that in ? Or can you buy and adaptor to plug from the yellow rca cable into the brass coaxial type?

Mine has got the black screen of death also after some intermittent working, notice there is condensation in the housing so ive ordered one off Ebay to try this fix also, any more info about soldering the new camera leads to the original camera leads would be useful, as I understand going from the new camera to the coax type connection looks tricky??

My new camera has now arrived, it's a different design to these though (it has 6 LEDs for night time reversing) and I have taken it apart with the idea of just replacing the circuit board / lens. It has 3 wires coming out, +ve, ground and video. There are 4 wires into the old camera, 2 power, the others presumably being video and the shielding for the coax - not sure how to 3 into 4 goes .
Maybe I will get the round camera and do what Nick did.

I am missing something here. The cameras have 3 wires, 2 power and the composite signal. I don't see how the single composite signal wire connects to the SMB (coax) cable that has two connections.

the earth on the power doubles up as the shielding on the coax..[if that makes sense] ... - .- -.




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Thanks Stan. So The black earth wire splits, 1 bit for the shielding and 1 for the power earth? That would explain the moulded part on the new cable, which I cut off.

thats what i've found when doing my home cctv .. ... - .- -.




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themule wrote:

My new camera has now arrived, it's a different design to these though (it has 6 LEDs for night time reversing) and I have taken it apart with the idea of just replacing the circuit board / lens. It has 3 wires coming out, +ve, ground and video. There are 4 wires into the old camera, 2 power, the others presumably being video and the shielding for the coax - not sure how to 3 into 4 goes .
Maybe I will get the round camera and do what Nick did.